The University of Nebraska Medical Center will construct the National Center for Health Security and Biopreparedness on its Omaha healthcare campus. Occupying the entire ground floor of the planned Global Center for Advanced Interprofessional Learning, the 30,000-sf facility will provide advanced simulation suites and inpatient quarantine areas for the management of infectious diseases such as Ebola. The biocontainment training center is supported by $19.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services and will include interprofessional collaboration spaces, briefing rooms, and immersive environments with virtual and augmented reality technologies. Construction will begin by early 2017 on the $102 million, 183,742-sf Global Center for Advanced Interprofessional Learning. Completion is expected in September of 2018.
